Will Whang’s blog

Building a Reader for the World’s Smallest Hard Drive — MK4001MTD Introduction Back when flash storage was still very expensive, miniature hard drives offered a much better cost-per-gigabyte ratio.

Project IMU Array System Arch Quick Summary Before delving into the specifics, I would like to clarify a few points.

Solar eclipse 2024 This time around, building upon the foundation of last year’s work, utilizing the Raspberry Pi 5.

Introduction Solar imaging has been a passion of mine since my school days.

Open Source Camera Doors Unlocked A long time ago, when the Raspberry Pi (RPI) 1 was released, I was fascinated by the shiny CSI/DSI interface on the board.

It has been a long-time driver issue that the Google TPU Coral module doesn’t support PCIe connection on Raspberry Pi 4, the only remaining way for raspberry pi is the USB 2.0 connection which for some bandwidth-heavy usage it will cause some performance…

PCIe 2.0 x1 is the new USB 2.0 on Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is a very interesting product with its PCIe port, just look how many peripherals nowadays are PCIe based.

Origin of the project There are many different tiny computer cluster projects on the internet, but back in the day, this one from Michal Zalewski catches my eye.

Sys Arch Atomic Clock Introduction The core of the project and the main reason I started this project is this miniature atomic clock I picked up from eBay a couple of years back.